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NPD Oct 2018: COD: BO4 and RDR2 top the charts, PS4 best selling hardware
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Yeah it has been available to pre-order on the eShop for over a month now and along with the 2× gold points incentive and the bundle with the fighter pass I'm inclined to agree. It's strong digital performance will hold it back on NPD.
Awesome, thanks. Will be interesting to see if this can pass that physical only.
Some games like Halo 5 might be missing because NPD stopped tracking units sales a few years ago (and we didn't get a PR from MS)
Halo 5 sold slight less than 1 M at retail in his first month. We don't know the digital split though so the total is higher.
Yep. I'm still expecting a massive result in physical copies sold but I wont be surprised if this has the best digital performance for a Nintendo 1st party game ever
For your first Smash my main recommendation would be to basically ignore the competitive Smash community, at least for a little while. To me the game shines the best as a party game to play with friends, items on, stage hazards, crazy random stuff happening, all of that.
The competitive scene can feel really restrictive and imposing at first.
Hopefully we get that data next year. Will be interesting to know how past rankings might change if Nintendo ever opens up about their digital sales.
Yeah, Smash is a game I want with me at all times so even as a primarily physical user, I'm getting digital.
They usually issue a PR a few days after big games as with Odyssey, Zelda and Pokémon so hopefully they do so here.
Halo 5 only had 1 week in its debut.
The estimate for digital was ~30% so even then it wouldn't hit the top 10 of that list.
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Where does the 3.2 million come from for Sun & Moon?
If using NPD Packaged sales then it'd be under Brawl.
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Smash will likely having shortages physically due to the time of year its releasing and not many shipping days before Christmas.
Its pre-ordering well but still trending behind gow and Spider-Man pre-order wise but will do well since pre-orders never seem to show actual demand for Nintendo titles because they always get this big boost after they come out.
Its pre-ordering well but still trending behind gow and Spider-Man pre-order wise but will do well since pre-orders never seem to show actual demand for Nintendo titles because they always get this big boost after they come out.
Lelouch said it was estimated so it was probably based on the 3.7 million figure for the Americas https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...n-Pokémon-Moon-Fastest-Selling-Games-Nintendo
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Cool. I imagine digital sales would boost sales somewhat so it probably is higher than Brawl by a notable amount. But hard to know how much exactly.
In its launch month Brawl shipped 3.33 million units in the Americas ( https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2009/090508e.pdf ) and sold 2.7 million units in the USA. I guess either Canada market isn't big enough to have a Nintendo game selling close to a million units in its first two weeks and digital sales for Sun/Moon were strong enough to beat Brawl by a significant amount in the USA, or Pokémon is much more popular than Smash in Canada.
very good points from you and Screen Looker . i watched the posts on my phone today and was quite disappointed that you already stole my arguments in advance. anyway, why shutting down and not repeat once more?
asking sony to chop off 100$ just because the extra sales will bring in lots of profit by subscriptions and software is tempting but might be short-sighted. the sparrow in the hand is better than the pigeon on the roof.
1) PS4 was/is still selling nicely for 300$. 100$ off means 100$ less profit not only from those additional sales, but also from all those who would have bought for 300$. So only the delta has to bring in the lost profit.
2) the 200-$-people might be so stingy that they don't subscribe to ps+ and just get the box to play spiderman (included) and maybe a single-player/couch coop game or two on top. So the burden to recoup all the missed profit is put on comparably few shoulders.
3) please do not take money earned from ps+ subscriptions for profit. even if it's a digital service, hosting costs money. free games cost them money (at least 3rd party stuff). so the 60$ a year are not profit yet.
4) on black friday it was okay to have a good chunk of consoles ready to join the party. why should they leave that day, where people don't shop for specific stuff, but only to get something and save money, to the competition.
5) lowering the price towards the end of the generation to harvest the market and bring in as many consumers as possible, binding them to the brand and hopefully keeping them for next gen would be something that plays an important role.
6) and of course the important aspect to win an NPD month.
I think that PS4 is even making profit at 200$, but as long as it sells well for 300 they will keep the pricepoint. As soon as the curve goes down (and it might do so very soon) they can easily switch to 250$, then to 200$. but honestly, calculating the sweet spots of pricing is such a mixed bag that you can only decide something, spit out manly and sell it as the best decision to your boss afterwards.
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Yeah, Xbox 360 pulled off something interesting in year 6. They lowered the price of the system and repositioned it to be more family oriented with the Kinect and they saw a boost in sales.
This is also why plenty see it unlikely for the PS4 to grow YoY next year unless something like VR suddenly takes off. And also why the idea of just simply dropping the price of the PS4 would not be enough. Basically, the Game Boy with Pokemon, and Xbox 360 with Kinect and repositioning to families are the only systems that I'm aware of to really see a a YoY growth late in life.
I do find myself ignoring the costs to maintain PS Plus at times. So yeah, that is definitely something to keep in mind. Of course, number 6 is always top priority as well lol.
I agree with your post overall.
NPD has never stopped tracking unit sales. Their monthly charts are ordered by revenue, but they have unit sales numbers too (just not published).
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NPD still tracks Genesis games... GENESIS
no they haven't stopped tracking Halo 5
Dreams is the reason i have a PS4, i'm super hyped for the game, BUT, i don't think the wide appeal is there.
Worldwide? Because I dont recall last November being that big outside of US either, compared to 2016 at least.
To help clarify, always assume discussion is in the context of the US in NPD threads unless otherwise stated.
That's what I usually go with - but the prior comments were specifically referring to WW shipments yearly comparisons so I wasn't sure.
I wonder if TLOU2 will be able to top Spiderman's 2.6 million?
Impossible to tell yet.
We don't even have a release date.
Game could be tracked for 2 days only or 32 first month for example.
Probably because Xbox One ended in last place every month this year, and because last time it won NPD was in October 2016.
